Charles lamb a dissertation upon roast pig amp other essays

Charles Lamb (1775-1834). A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig. Lionel Strachey, et al., eds. 1906. The World's Wit and Humor: An Anthology in Fifteen Volumes

And nothing demonstrates it better than Charles Lamb’s A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays. The book is made up of fourteen very different essays, which are loosely tied together by the theme of food. Some essays survive the passing of time better than others.

A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig By Charles Lamb (1775–1834) From “Essays of Elia” M ANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day.

But the narrator seems indifferent to the conundrum, and suggests a tasty sauce made of shallots to eat the pig with. Among the most light-hearted of Lamb's essays is this freewheeling comic dissertation on the pleasure of eating roasted pig.